Comment 49 for bug 40189

Good evening,

I see this bug in Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS with autofs version 5.1.1-1ubuntu3 when I try to access cifs shares from my NAS.

When I try to access the shares with 'cd' or 'ls' after boot with network on both sides up and running I got the error message: "File or Directory not found." After running `sudo systemctl restart autofs.service` it works like a charme.

Here is my '''/etc/auto.master.d/diskstation.autofs''':
~~~
/home/tronde/diskstation /etc/auto.diskstation
~~~

And my '''/etc/auto.diskstation''':
~~~
music -fstype=cifs,uid=1000,credentials=/home/tronde/.smbcredentials ://IP-ADRESSE/music
photo -fstype=cifs,uid=1000,credentials=/home/tronde/.smbcredentials ://IP-ADRESSE/photo
share -fstype=cifs,uid=1000,credentials=/home/tronde/.smbcredentials ://IP-ADRESSE/share
video -fstype=cifs,uid=1000,credentials=/home/tronde/.smbcredentials ://IP-ADRESSE/video
home -fstype=cifs,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/tronde/.smbcredentials ://IP-ADRESSE/home
~~~

The service configuration looks like:
~~~
cat /run/systemd/generator.late/graphical.target.wants/autofs.service
# Automatically generated by systemd-sysv-generator

[Unit]
Documentation=man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
SourcePath=/etc/init.d/autofs
Description=LSB: Automounts filesystems on demand
Before=multi-user.target
Before=multi-user.target
Before=multi-user.target
Before=graphical.target
Before=shutdown.target
After=network-online.target
After=remote-fs.target
After=systemd-journald-dev-log.socket
After=ypbind.service
After=nslcd.service
After=slapd.service
Wants=network-online.target
Conflicts=shutdown.target

[Service]
Type=forking
Restart=no
TimeoutSec=5min
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
KillMode=process
GuessMainPID=no
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/autofs start
ExecStop=/etc/init.d/autofs stop
ExecReload=/etc/init.d/autofs reload
~~~

The source of this configuration from '''/etc/init.d/autofs''':

~~~
cat /etc/init.d/autofs
#! /bin/sh
#

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: autofs
# Required-Start: $network $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs $syslog
# Should-Start: ypbind nslcd slapd
# Should-Stop: ypbind nslcd slapd
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Automounts filesystems on demand
# Description: Automounts filesystems on demand
### END INIT INFO

# Location of the automount daemon and the init directory
#
PROG=automount
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/$PROG
NAME=autofs
PIDFILE="/var/run/$NAME.pid"

test -e $DAEMON || exit 0

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
export PATH

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

#
# load customized configuation settings
#
if [ -r /etc/default/autofs ]; then
 . /etc/default/autofs
fi

start_stop_autofs() {
 start-stop-daemon "$@" --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \
  $OPTIONS --pid-file $PIDFILE
}

start() {
 log_action_begin_msg "Starting $PROG"

 if ! grep -qw autofs /proc/filesystems
 then
  if ! modprobe autofs4 >/dev/null 2>&1
  then
   log_action_end_msg 1 "failed to load autofs4 module"
   return 1
  fi
 elif [ -f /proc/modules ] && grep -q "^autofs[^4]" /proc/modules
 then
  log_action_end_msg 1 "autofs kernel module is loaded, autofs4 required"
  return 1
 fi

 if ! start_stop_autofs --start --oknodo --quiet ; then
  log_action_end_msg 1 "no valid automount entries defined."
  return 1
 fi
 log_end_msg 0
 return 0
}

stop() {
 log_action_begin_msg "Stopping $PROG"
 if ! start_stop_autofs --stop --retry 5 --oknodo --quiet ; then
  log_action_end_msg 1
  return 1
 fi
 log_end_msg 0
 return 0
}

reload() {
 log_action_begin_msg "Reloading $PROG maps"
 if ! start_stop_autofs --stop --signal=HUP --quiet
 then
  log_action_end_msg 1 "$PROG not running"
  return 1
 fi
 log_action_end_msg 0
 return 0
}

forcestart() {
 OPTIONS="$OPTIONS --force"
 start
}

case "$1" in
 start|forcestart|stop|reload)
  $1
  ;;
 restart|force-reload)
  stop
  start
  ;;
 forcerestart)
  stop
  forcestart
  ;;
 status)
  status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON $PROG
  ;;
 *)
  echo "Usage: $0 {start|forcestart|stop|restart|forcerestart|reload|force-reload|status}"
  exit 1
  ;;
esac
~~~

This way autofs has no advantage over the manual mount with mount.cifs. Open this bug and fix ist, please.

Best regards,
Tronde